We were very lucky last week to receive a visit from the Customs Officers and their dog. They gave a presentation to the older classes about their work and the tasks that the dog has to do on a daily basis. They even planted some evidence in the classroom to show how great the dog is at finding hidden contraband. Everyone really enjoyed the visit. Click on the photos for a closer look! 🙂
Monthly Archives: March 2019
Golden Boot Winners!
Congratulations to Second Class who are this month’s worthy winners of our Golden Boot award! Second Class had the highest number of children travelling to school by environmentally friendly means such as Park N’ Stride, car pooling, walking, cycling or scooting.
Well done everyone! 🙂
Junior Infants-from acorns to little trees!
Junior Infants are very proud of their horse chestnut trees and how they have grown. They cannot wait to bring them home and plant them in their gardens! 🙂
Seachtain na Gaeilge Sessions!
We celebrated Seachtain na Gaeilge with something that is traditionally and typically Irish-the impromptu singing and playing session!
The members of our school choir and tin whistle band, accompanied by their excellent music tutor Helena, held a performance for every class in the school. The children enjoyed listening to some classics such as Grace, a medley of Irish traditional tunes as well as some modern favourites from The Greatest Showman. Click on the audio files below to hear and enjoy the music session for yourself. 🙂 Well done everyone!
First Confession
Congratulations to the boys and girls of 2nd Class who will receive the sacrament of Penance tonight. They have been preparing for this special night with their teacher, Miss O’ Neill, and are looking forward to sharing this special evening with their families.
6th Class Confirmation
Congratulations to the boys and girls of 6th Class who are receiving the sacrament of Confirmation tomorrow, at 11am, in Castledockrell church. They have worked very hard to prepare for tomorrow with their teacher, Ms McCarthy, and are looking forward to celebrating their special day with their families and friends.
Anxiety Awareness
Wexford Education Centre is holding a course for parents and teachers on how to help children who are struggling to cope with a variety of issues.
UNDERSTANDING & MANAGING CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENT ANXIETY takes place on 9th April at 7pm, is free but places are limited and are filling up fast.
Click on the link below to register and secure your place.
The course is outlined as follows: “Anxiety is fast becoming an epidemic in our society. Children are struggling to cope in this digital, constant entertainment, on demand, everybody is a winner world. In a one hour talk about children’s anxiety, you will come to understand why this modern society is contributing to our children’s anxiety levels. But more importantly, hear how we can help steer our children away from serious mental health issues by being able to control this anxiety.
Carina McEvoy: Author, therapist & former teacher Carina is on a mission to help kids & teens unleash their own inner power! She believes that involving the parents/guardians in this process is just as important, as they are such an important factor to helping their little ones unleash this amazing resilience. Carina provides valuable guidance to help Individuals manage their emotions, thoughts and unwanted behaviours. She believes that we all have the power within us to master anything! One of the greatest qualities Carina possesses is empathy, as she knows exactly how anxiety and unhealthy emotions can take hold! Fortunately however, she also knows to break that hold and take control back!”
Third Class are making Maths easy!
3rd class have been working hard practising their multiplication and division facts. The class worked together to figure out all the different ways that division questions could be asked and then put them into a PowerPoint. They hope this will help them and maybe other classes when working our division sums from now on. Well done Third Class! 🙂
Author Workshop for World Book Day
We were very lucky here in Marshalstown to receive a visit from the well known Wexford author, Caroline Busher, as part of our activities to celebrate World Book Day. Caroline has published two books, The Ghosts of Magnificent Children and The Girl who ate the Stars. Every class in the school were treated to a writing and reading workshop where they learned her top tips for creating their own stories. A certain boy in Third Class was also delighted with the visit as he is Caroline’s own son!
We would like to thank Caroline for taking time out to visit us and for helping to inspire the children to write their own books.
Here you can see the Junior and Senior Infants having a wonderful time in their workshop. 🙂
Mary had a little lamb!
Junior Infants have been very busy learning all about the season of Spring and life on the farm. Here they are singing “Mary had a little lamb”. Haven’t they wonderful voices? Great job everyone! 🙂